Tomato 2.5/4 |
Jackass: Number Two (2006) |
"You have to marvel at the way these guys keep coming up with ingenious ways to hurt themselves." |
David Hiltbrand |
Splat 2/4 |
The Jacket (2005) |
"Makes little sense and much ado." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2/4 |
Jailbait (2006) |
"Claustrophobic and overwrought, Jailbait is an unpleasant excursion into gay panic mitigated somewhat by performances that are hard to shake." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
James' Journey to Jerusalem (2003) |
"A fluid and often funny morality tale." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007) |
"The acting ensemble is as colorful, and thorny, as a garden of Austen archetypes." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Japanese Story (2004) |
"On one level -- an important one -- Brooks' picture, erotically charged and haunting, is about the way people connect, and change each other, profoundly." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Jarhead (2005) |
"Although the picture suffers a narrative letdown in the third act that leaves its central characters -- and, alas, its audience -- in the muck of anticlimax, Jarhead has moments of real glory." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2/4 |
Jason X (2002) |
"A long way from high art. Or even high schlock." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) |
"It's not by any means a good movie. But Jay and Silent Bob is one heck of a good laugh." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Jay Z - Fade to Black (2004) |
"Though Fade to Black veers into vanity-production territory at such moments, it mostly is a triumph of stagecraft and speaker-blowing freestyling." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
JCVD (2008) |
"A clever art-imitates-life-imitates-art send-up of celebrityhood and the state of the action-hero genre, JCVD juggles humor with whomping martial-arts moves and a kind of melancholy star turn from the melancholy, muscular star." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 1/4 |
Jeepers Creepers (2001) |
"A standard-issue, ineptly executed serving of the genre's staples, from skeptical cops to an all-knowing psychic, on hand to explain everything about the demonic force behind the body count." |
Desmond Ryan |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) |
"An unsatisfying mix." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Jellyfish (2008) |
"A little piece of cinematic poetry." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Jennifer's Body (2009) |
"As a horror movie, Jennifer's Body doesn't fully deliver. But as a comic allegory of what it's like to be an adolescent girl who comes into sexual and social power that she doesn't know what the heck to do with, it is a minor classic." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Jerichow (2009) |
"A taut, German-made thriller, Jerichow adds a bit of European xenophobia to the pulp traditions of passion and betrayal." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2/4 |
Jersey Girl (2004) |
"Smith's story is like a nightmare amalgam of decades of single-dad sitcoms: mawkish, cloying, and essentially bogus." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Jesus Camp (2006) |
"No matter your religious or political affiliation (or lack thereof), this supremely even-handed documentary from Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady is cinematic dynamite." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Jet Lag (2003) |
"An enjoyable getaway into retro romance." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Jindabyne (2007) |
"[Director] Lawrence's compelling little film pursues a deep question: why people make the choices that they do - and how they then live with those decisions, right or wrong, weak or strong." |
Steven Rea |
Splat |
Joe Dirt (2001) |
"Just a big chunk of waste flushed from a Hollywood studio." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (2007) |
"Julian Temple has done cinematic justice to the punk humanist born John Graham Mellor." |
Dan DeLuca |
Splat 1.5/4 |
John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001) |
"Henstridge ... has neither the heft nor the acting chops to carry the film." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2.5/4 |
John Q (2002) |
"This is an A-list cast toiling on a C-list screenplay ... and working for a director whose agenda -- and propagandist tactics -- get the better of him." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2/4 |
John Tucker Must Die (2006) |
"A modest crowd-pleaser, John Tucker Must Die is no Clueless or Election ... but as a cleaner alternative to the American Pie franchise, it's just perfect for teen-dates- in-training." |
Tirdad Derakhshani |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Johnson Family Vacation (2004) |
"Apart from Williams' presence, director Christopher Erskin's feature debut isn't worth the price of submission." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2/4 |
Jonas Brothers - The Concert Experience (2009) |
"Boy bands serve multiple functions for their audiences. They entertain, they sing the poetry of love, they offer a spectrum of masculine attributes. On the first two counts, the Jonas Brothers movie leaves something to be desired." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato |
Josie and the Pussycats (2001) |
"If its ragtag heroines are as wholesome as ice-cream cones and as skimpily dressed as Hooters servers, at least they are not conformist mallrats." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Joy Ride (2001) |
"A really satisfying suspenser, but also really, really fun." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Joyeux Noël (2006) |
"A poignant and rousing carol for peace." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Julie & Julia (2009) |
"Like Nora Ephron's captivating film, Streep's performance is haute cuisine disguised as comfort food, a complex preparation yielding effects both broadly entertaining and subtly moving." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato |
Jump Tomorrow (2001) |
"Sweet-natured and goofy and funny in all the right places." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2/4 |
Jumper (2008) |
"Adapted from Steven Gould's young-adult novel, Liman's tale of the bookish high-schooler with unusual powers isn't a shot of adrenaline, it's an OD." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Junebug (2005) |
"This brilliantly detailed, richly painted portrait lingers long in the memory." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Juno (2007) |
"What kind of movie is Juno? The rarity that plucks your heartstrings while tickling them." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Jurassic Park III (2001) |
"Has to be the sorriest excuse for a reprise since Highlander -- The Final Dimension." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Just a Kiss (2002) |
"What a mess." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Just Friends (2005) |
"Thanks to director Roger Kumble's breathless pacing, Just Friends manages to outrun most of its flaws." |
David Hiltbrand |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Just Like Heaven (2005) |
"Romance isn't alive but on life support in Just Like Heaven, a groaningly awful romantic comedy." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 2/4 |
Just Married (2003) |
"Even when this sitcom about honeymooners in hell was recycling lame jokes from National Lampoon's European Vacation, Kutcher retained a doofus dignity that made me laugh." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Just My Luck (2006) |
"I liked the film's idea that luck is like love -- something that diminishes when you hoard it and multiplies when you share it." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat |
Just Visiting (2001) |
"Wasn't one iota funnier when I regained consciousness than it was when I mercifully slipped out of it." |
Steven Rea |
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